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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) speaks with voter Sandra Woodburn as she campaigns outside of the Kings Point Clubhouse polling station on August 18, 2026, in Tamarac, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Politics
Debbie Wasserman Schultz wins Florida congressional primary
By Sharon Udasin
She becomes the first white candidate in a district that has sent Black representatives to Congress for more than 30 years.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) speaks with voter Sandra Woodburn as she campaigns outside of the Kings Point Clubhouse polling station on August 18, 2026, in Tamarac, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
August 19, 2026, 9:47 pm
Debbie Wasserman Schultz wins Florida congressional primary
She becomes the first white candidate in a district that has sent Black representatives to Congress for more than 30 years.
By Sharon Udasin
Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, November 18, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
August 19, 2026, 2:59 pm
Rep. Randy Fine beats Dan Bilzerian, who said he wants to ‘kill Israelis’
The GOP representative won his party’s primary in a race marked by barbs against Jews and Muslims.
By Sharon Udasin
Former celebrity poker player and Instagram influencer Dan Bilzerian has referred to his opponent as a "fat Jew" and referenced Adolf Hitler in a positive light in a recent campaign video. (Prodip Guha/Getty Images)
August 18, 2026, 7:20 pm
Antisemitism takes center stage in Florida races featuring anti-Israel Republicans
Fishback is eyeing the governor’s seat and Bilzerian hopes to head to Congress.
By Joseph Strauss
Rep. Jared Moskowitz in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on January 22, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Al Drago/Getty Images)
May 19, 2026, 10:27 am
Rep. Jared Moskowitz becomes latest Jewish lawmaker to reveal antisemitic threats
The Florida Democrat urged Americans not to tolerate antisemitism as he played threatening voicemails left for his office on CNN.
By Grace Gilson
Renee Albersheim was murdered during the Holocaust. A Jewish couple in Florida has said the Mourner's Kaddish for her daily for years. (Courtesy Susan Bell)
April 14, 2026, 2:52 pm
Many children killed in the Holocaust had no one to say Kaddish for them. These Jews have stepped up.
Dozens of families at a Florida synagogue have “adopted” child victims to memorialize as their own.
By Stewart Ain
Dan Bilzerian was asked during a TMZ interview about referring to Rep. Randy Fine as a "fat Jew." (Screenshot)
April 13, 2026, 12:52 pm
Dan Bilzerian wants to ‘kill Israelis’ and thinks Judaism is ‘terrible.’ Now he’s running for Congress.
The influencer declined to answer when TMZ asked him whether Adolf Hitler was antisemitic.
By Joseph Strauss
The Florida Historic Capitol sits near the 22-story New Capitol building, which together are part of the Capitol Complex on July 26, 2023 in Tallahassee, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
March 6, 2026, 4:42 pm
Florida politicians condemn Miami Young Republicans leaders’ antisemitic group chat
Participants used “kike” and other derogatory remarks for Jews, along with numerous racist messages.
By Andrew Lapin
Firefighters respond to a blaze at the Chabad of Charlotte County. (Punta Gorda Police Department)
September 25, 2025, 10:00 am
Fire at Florida Chabad center before Rosh Hashanah investigated as potential hate crime
The letter “J” was also written in spray paint in multiple places around the building.
By Grace Gilson
Rabbi Sholom Lipskar listens as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference at the Shul of Bal Harbour on June 14, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
May 6, 2025, 10:00 am
Sholom Lipskar, influential Chabad rabbi who reshaped Florida community, dies at 78
Lipskar also founded the Aleph Institute, which serves Jews who are incarcerated or in the military.
By Philissa Cramer
A photo of solar panels in Wedgefield, Florida, with cracked glass, submitted as evidence in a federal case against a Jordanian national charged with targeting various businesses he believed supported Israel. The photo was filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, April 24, 2025. (Government photo)
May 2, 2025, 4:03 pm
Jordanian national sentenced to 6 years for targeting businesses he believed supported Israel
Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen damaged a solar farm, Starbucks and McDonald’s in 2024.
By Andrew Lapin
Ari Ribay (left), one of the victims of the shooting, speaks to the media. (Screenshot via JTA)
February 18, 2025, 1:38 pm
Florida man arrested after shooting 2 Israelis he thought were Palestinians
The man, Mordechai Brafman, opened fire on the two men Saturday night, firing 17 shots. They were lightly injured.
By Ben Sales
The main conference hall at the AIPAC conference, 2018 (Photo by Lauren Rosenblatt)
January 1, 2025, 5:18 pm
Armed man arrested for plotting attack on Florida AIPAC office
Suspect detained with assault rifles after scouting site of organization’s office; marks the latest in a series of potential violent attacks on US Jewish targets
By Luke Tress
Olivia Ostrow sits in the kitchen of her namesake Ostrow Brasserie, a kosher French restaurant in Miami. (Courtesy Salar A - Miami Creative Agency, via JTA)
February 29, 2024, 1:20 pm
This unusual chef serves up ‘trayf good’ kosher French food off beaten path in Miami
Her ultimate goal is to be the first standalone kosher restaurant to achieve a Michelin star.
By Sara Liss
The title pages of a Nazi-published version of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," an antisemitic text, circa 1935. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
May 25, 2023, 12:24 pm
The Florida mom who sought to ban Amanda Gorman’s poem says she’s sorry for promoting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
“I’m not what the post says,” she said. “I love the Jewish community.”
By Andrew Lapin
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a Jerusalem Post conference at the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem on April 27, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 12, 2023, 3:00 pm
Florida rejects Holocaust education textbooks in clampdown on ‘woke’ instruction
One of the rejected Holocaust textbooks was “Modern Genocides.” The other was an online learning course, “History of the Holocaust.” Both were intended for high school students.
By Andrew Lapin
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